Thursday, January 31, 2019

Are you driven for research and teaching in logistics and operations management in a young, dynamic group? Then Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam would like to get to know you.

Location: AMSTERDAM

Job descriptionWe seek a new colleague who can contribute to building and extending the department's reputation for excellence in research and teaching. Our research aims at having an impact, evidenced by publications in top international academic journals. Teaching focuses on logistics and operations management courses and student supervision. Applicants receive a well-structured tenure track.

Your duties

* doing innovative research and publish this research at the highest level in the international top journals; * creating a stimulating learning environment for students at all levels (BSc, MSc, Ph.D.); * being active in acquiring additional research funds, both individually and as a team effort with your colleagues.

RequirementsWe are looking for candidates with strong data analytics skills (e.g. data mining, machine learning, data science, predictive analytics,...), and an interest in applying these skills to real-life problems in logistics and operations management. You have:

What are we offering?A challenging position in an international and ambitious research group. The initial employment contract for an Assistant professor will be for a period of 6 years, with the possibility of Tenure. The tenure track position involves research (40%) and teaching (60%). At the end of the second year, a performance evaluation will take place. The Tenure Track Committee will review your file including the evaluation and advice on the continuation of your tenure track. In the fifth year, the Tenure Track Committee will review your file in order to decide upon the tenured assignment, based on the assessment criteria of the Tenure Track system at SBE. In the case of excellent performance, earlier tenure decisions are possible.

Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers excellent fringe benefits and various schemes and regulations to promote a good work/life balance, such as:

* a maximum of 41 days of annual leave based on full-time employment * 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus * considerable employer's contribution to the ABP pension scheme * contribution to commuting expenses * an optional model for designing a personalized benefits package * a relocation allowance * you may also be eligible for a favorable tax ruling for high-skilled expats (the so-called 30% ruling), which means that 30% of the salary is free of taxes, resulting in a higher net salary.About Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamThe ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research. And to be a university where personal education and societal involvement play a leading role. Where people from different disciplines and backgrounds work together on innovations and on generating new knowledge. Our teaching and research embrace the whole spectrum of science - from the humanities, the social sciences and the pure sciences through to the life sciences and the medical sciences.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 23,000 students. We employ more than 4,500 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible, located in the heart of Amsterdam's Zuidas district, a truly inspiring environment for teaching and research.

School of Business and EconomicsThe School of Business and Economics (SBE) provides high-quality education and excellent research in business administration and economics with a focus on contributing to the social, economic and ecological challenges of our time. Whether it is the use of robots in society or big data, labor market participation or flexibility in the labor market, traffic jams or the housing market, flash crashes in the stock market or choice behavior in gambling, leadership or change management: we believe in goal-oriented scientific research and understand that progress in academics, the business community and society is achieved through cooperation, openness and social responsibility.

At SBE, all of our highly-motivated colleagues work together closely in a stimulating, dynamic and international environment to achieve our collective goal of encouraging society to make informed choices. Approximately 4,200 Bachelor's and Master's students and 1,700 executive students are enrolled at the School, and employs roughly 500 people.

The Department of Supply Chain Analytics is driven for science with purpose, focusing on solving real-life problems in distribution logistics, including performance analysis, distribution and transport network optimization, and supply chain coordination. The group operates in a strong international research and industry network, participates in various national and international research projects and regularly organizes international conferences and workshops. Group members collaborate with leading researchers at several international universities and research output is published in leading academic journals in the field. Teaching wise, our mission is to empower students with the methodological skills, managerial insights, and enduring curiosity to contribute to solving today's challenges in the industry

DiversityDiversity is one of our university's core values. We are an inclusive community, and we believe that diversity and international activities enhance the quality of education and research. We are always looking for people who can enhance diversity on our campus thanks to their background and experience

ApplicationAre you interested in this position? Send your letter with your motivation, CV, list of publications, a research and teaching statement, two recommendation letters by March 15th, 2019, to Ms. M. Maletic, Managing Director of the School of Business and Economics, by e-mail: vacature.sbe@vu.nl<mailto:vacature.sbe@vu.nl>. Please mention position in the e-mail header. We start inviting candidates from the application deadline onwards, and the search will continue until the position has been filled with a high-quality candidate.

Vacancy questionsIf you have any questions regarding this vacancy, you may contact:

Relocation supportIf you have any questions regarding moving to Amsterdam and working at VU Amsterdam, you may contact:Name: Wytske SiegersmaPosition: Relocation AdvisorE-mail: relocation@vu.nl<mailto:relocation@vu.nl>Telephone: +31 (20) 59 85037

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15:30 - 16:30 Rachel Kirsch, London School of Economics: Many cliqueswith few edges16:30 - 17:00 David Marchant, The Open University: The growth of theMöbius function on the permutation poset

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Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Computer Science inthe Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London.

We are recruiting for an academic member of staff who can strengthen ourresearch, which falls broadly within Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmsand Complexity, Distributed and Global Computing, and Software LanguageEngineering; we also have strong connections with the Information SecurityGroup.

The successful candidate will help us seek and seize opportunities forresearch funding and industrial engagement. They will hold a PhD orequivalent, and will have a proven research record in any of those areas,with a solid background in the underlying theory. Experience in attractingfunding, engaging with industry, or contributing to outreach activitieswould also be valuable.

This is a full-time and permanent (tenured) post, available from April 2019or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is based in Egham, Surrey,within commuting distance from London, Europe's most dynamic technologyhub.

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The context for the position is a Tier-1 project "Securing Expression ofOpinion". The overall aim of the project is to develop a new game-theoreticapproach to prevent falsification of election results. The approach isbased on a model that combines recent advances in security games whenapplied to features of an underlying voting process.

Specifically, the aim of this post will be to contribute to one or more ofthe following:

(i) assist in theoretical analysis of the formal secured voting model,identify domain sub-classes with distinct features wrt computationalcomplexity and manipulability(ii) develop an experimental test-bed for the approach with an outlook toincorporate and study real-world human behaviour patterns(iii) study other social choice processes for the possibility to apply thesecured model

More information:For more details about the position and to apply, please contact SvetlanaObraztsova (lana@ntu.edu.sg) via an e-mail titled "Re: Application RF/RASingEO"

The context for the position is a Tier-1 project "Mixed Initiative DCOPs".The overall aim of the project is to study the effects of heterogeneouscomputational and communication capabilities of nodes that partake in theexecution of a distributed constraint optimisation algorithm.

Specifically, the aim of this post will be to contribute to one or more ofthe following:

(i) assist in the information theoretic analysis of existing DCOP algorithms(ii) develop efficient means to augment DCOP algorithms to counteractcomputational and communication restrictions(iii) develop an experimental test-bed for the approach with an outlook toincorporate and study real-world human behaviour patterns

More information:For more details about the position and to apply, please contact ZinoviRabinovich (zinovi@ntu.edu.sg) via an e-mail titled "Re: Application RF/RAMI-DCOPS".

About the University~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, is currently ranked 12thworld-wide by the QS World University Rankings. In 2017, Times HigherEducation World University Rankings has placed the School of ComputerScience and Engineering (SCSE) in the 3rd place for our citation impact inthe area of Artificial Intelligence. NTU's campus is located in the greenerand a more quiet corner of Singapore, a welcome respite from the vividlybustling, vibrant city life of the island.

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The World Wide Web has become part of our everyday life, and information retrieval and data mining on the Web are now of enormous practical interest. The algorithms supporting these activities combine the view of the Web as a text repository and as a graph, induced in various ways by links among pages, hosts and users.

The aim of the 16th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2019) is to further the understanding of graphs that arise from the Web and various user activities on the Web, and stimulate the development of high-performance algorithms and applications that exploit these graphs. The workshop will also welcome the researchers who are working on graph-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of citation networks, social networks, biological networks, molecular networks, and the Internet.

WAW 2019 Keynotes:

Anthony Bonato (Ryerson University, Canada)

Catherine Greenhill (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Peter Taylor (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Submission Guidelines:

WAW 2019 invites original research papers and abstracts on all aspects of algorithmic and mathematical research in the areas pertaining to the World-Wide Web, especially papers that espouse the view of complex data as networks.

The papers must be formatted according to Springer LNCS style. The maximum length of papers is at most 15 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published as a Springer LNCS volume. Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to a special issue of Internet Mathematics. Talks associated with proceedings papers will be 30 minutes.

Abstracts are a maximum of one page, may be in any style, and must be pdf files. They should include the title, speakers, and a summary of research. All abstracts related to the conference areas will be accepted (at the discretion of the program committee), and published on the conference website (but not published in the proceedings). Talks associated with abstracts will be 20 minutes.

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Being a popular summer holiday destination, lodging in Nice in summer isexpensive. However, the school is supported by different sponsors:Universite Cote d'Azur, UCA Academie 1, Universite Nice, google, PIMS.Registration fees (including 2-week stay in a single bedroom close to theuniversity, lunches and coffee breaks during lecture days): 400 Euro.Discounts for people without need for lodging. However, the number ofparticipants being limited, we might have to make a selection.

If you want to participate, send an email to dmitsche@gmail.com. Attach aCV as well as a short motivation letter for your participation.

Deadline for registration: May 1, 2019. You will be informed shortlyafterwards whether your application was successful.

Best regards,Dieter Mitsche

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===============================================================The International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) is the premier annual meeting for researchers focusing on the theory and applications of the propositional satisfiability problem, broadly construed. In addition to plain propositional satisfiability, it also includes Boolean optimization (such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints), Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning.

We invite proposals for workshops associated to the main conference program of SAT 2019, which will be held in Lisbon (Portugal) from July 7 to July 12, 2019.Submission of Workshop Proposals

Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). A second, organizational part should include:

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Please contact Hana Rudova <hanka@fi.muni.cz> if you are interested inthese particular topics. You should also send her -- an academic CV including a list of publications (only published or accepted), -- your three best publications from recent years from above mentioned areas (references as well as PDF files), where all publications must be published or accepted. Do not send publications under review.Note that deadline for application is March 1, 2019. However, you should contact Hana Rudova as early as possible to compare potential candidates for these areas in advance. More details about corresponding research topics can be found at

* OfferThe postdoctoral positions are awarded for one year with an extension to the second year after a review. Gross salary is 50,000 CZK per month which, with an optional 10% bonus, sums to more than 25,500 EUR per year. Additional funds of 4,000 EUR per year will be available for travel and material expenses. Preferred start date of the contract is in June/July 2019, but other options can be negotiated without hassle.

* RequirementsCandidates must have a Ph.D. degree not older than 4 years at the time of application, from a university outside of the Czech and Slovak Republics. In case that the Ph.D. defense is not yet finished, the candidate must also provide an official letter certifying that his/her Ph.D. thesis has already been submitted for defense and outlining the expected schedule of the Ph.D. defense. Candidates with a Ph.D. degree from a Czech or Slovak university may also be considered if they prove at least two years of post-doctoral research experience abroad.

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Moreover, the scientific program comprises 54 contributed papers(selected from 260 submitted papers).The program will start on March 13, 01:00 pm, with the two tutorialsand it will end on March 16 around noon.

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LOCATIONThe WG 2019 conference is the 45th edition of the WG series. It will takeplace inVall de Núria, a valley very close to the French-Spanish borders. Theconferencewill take place from Wednesday June 19 to Friday June 21, 2019.Participants areexpected to arrive at Vall de Núria on Tuesday June 18, preferably by trainfromBarcelona, to join the welcome reception in the evening.

IMPORTANT DATESSubmission of papers: February 19, 2019Acceptance notification: April 19, 2019Conference: June 19-21, 2019Final version: July 9, 2019

SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGSContributors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 12 pagesSpringer LNCS format (www.springer.com/lncs) including title, abstract andreferences.Proofs omitted due to space restrictions must be placed in an appendix, tobe readby program committee members at their discretion. All papers must beoriginal and notsimultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Acceptedcontributions will bepublished in the conference post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes inComputer Science(ARCoSS/LNCS) series of Springer-Verlag.

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A limited number of contributed talks will be included in the program of the conference. When registering, please indicate as soon as possible if you wish to give a talk. The abstracts of the talks should be submitted by 01.03.2019. A decision will be made by 15.03.2019.

Monday, January 28, 2019

Two postdoctoral positions are available at the Department ofIndustrial Engineering of Universidad de Chile (Santiago) starting inbetween May and October 2019. The selected candidates will devotefully to research working with professors Jose Correa<http://www.dii.uchile.cl/~jcorrea/> and Juan Escobar<http://www.dii.uchile.cl/~jescobar/> on fundamental algorithmicand/or economic issues related to market design, broadly understood.

The appointment will be for a period of 12 months, renewable by mutualagreement, with a monthly salary of 1.900.000 CLP. Shorter periods mayalso be considered. Travel support is available. Applicants must holda recent PhD in Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, OperationsResearch, or related fields. Applications including curriculum vitae,list of publications, research plan (1 page), and names of referenceswith their e-mail addresses, should be sent electronically to JoseCorrea or Juan Escobar. To ensure full consideration the applicationshould be sent before the deadline of February 26th, 2019. Lateapplications will be considered on a case by case basis.************************************************************ Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to** DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de** Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an* update of the replies received and to communicate it* via DMANET.** DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/***********************************************************

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is once again open for business, operating under a three-week continuing resolution (CR) through February 15, 2019, following the 35-day lapse in appropriations (lapse) that began December 22, 2018, and concluded this past Friday. Many people have been impacted by the lapse, both personally and professionally, including our own NSF staff as well as all of you – our broader community. Unfortunately, the lapse resulted in numerous missed panels, a backlog of proposal actions, and delays on several other fronts as well. Consequently, as we resume operations today, across the Foundation, we face a significant backlog of personnel, programmatic, review, facility, budgetary, and oversight actions, with additional impending deadlines.

We call your attention to the NSF home page (www.nsf.gov), where you'll find a message from NSF Director France Córdovaregarding the lapse, as well as a document outlining guidance for the NSF proposer and awardee community. In this guidance document, you'll find information about proposal preparation and submission; changes to existing proposal due dates (note that several solicitations led by the CISE directorate are impacted); updates regarding proposal review processes, including panels that were missed or are scheduled in the coming weeks; and post-award information.

It will certainly take some time until we are able to work through the backlog of items and activities needing attention, and much longer before we are able to return to a sense of "business as usual." We are establishing priorities that will enable us to focus on the most critical activities first, particularly in light of the time-limited, three-week CR. We ask that you please review the guidance document and other material posted on the NSF website, and hope that these will answer many of the questions that you might have. If you still have questions, we and our colleagues in CISE are here to address items that are not in the posted guidance – but also ask for your patience and understanding as we re-boot with more than a month of backlogged activities.

Throughout the lapse, many have noted the critical role that NSF, and the science and engineering community that we serve, play in "promot[ing] the progress of science; …advanc[ing] the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and secur[ing] the national defense..." – our mission as stated in the 1950 NSF Act that established the agency. We return to work today inspired, as always, by this mission and the importance of our collective activities to the Nation, and look forward to working with you all again in the times ahead.

Best,

Jim and Erwin

Jim Kurose, Assistant Director (AD) of NSF for CISE

Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy AD of NSF for CISE

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This position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found. This PhD position is funded by the Leverhulme Centre for Functional Materials Design that has been recently launched at the University of Liverpool. This centre is one of only 4 such centres funded in the UK and brings together expertise in chemistry with state-of-the-art computer science and automated technologies to develop a new approach to revolutionise the design of functional materials at the atomic scale.

The research questions that we are going to consider within this new PhD project on "Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Continuous Optimisation with Applications to Crystal Structure Prediction" will be related to several areas of Theoretical Computer Science (e.g., the design and theoretical analysis of algorithms and computational complexity theory), Discrete and Continuous Optimisation (e.g., mathematical programming, convex and non-convex optimisation), as applied to Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP), a topic in Computational Chemistry.

The prediction of crystal structures with lowest potential energy, and therefore most stable, configuration of the atoms is still a largely unresolved challenging computational problem. The main complexity comes from the combinatorial explosion in the number of possibilities and unpredictable nature of non-convex energy landscape. The current computational methods mainly fail to provide reliable low energy structures prediction for atomic structures containing more than 100-150 atoms per the unit cell and become even useless with significant increase of potentially available types of atoms for new structures. The currently used variants of simulated annealing or genetic algorithms also have their own different limitations.

We will consider a family of continuous optimisation problems with convex or smooth but non-convex objective functions, where various fast algorithms have been developed by the Theoretical Computer Science community, with proven polynomial time bounds on their running time. These algorithms find global (approximate) optima, in the case of convex optimisation, and (approximately) local optima in case of non-convex smooth optimisation. The goal of this research is to design and analyse (new variants of) such algorithms for classes of such optimisation problems inspired by crystal structure prediction.

In crystal structure prediction (CSP), specific energy functions are minimised in search of minimal energy constellations of a collection of atoms of different kinds. The energy functions are known to be smooth but highly non-convex, so finding global optima may be challenging. However, even local optima are of importance, because they also correspond to chemically stable crystal structures. This area opens very interesting avenues to theoretical optimisation algorithmics, where faster such solvers for classes of optimisation problems motivated by CSP will be sought.

This project will look at the design and analysis of state of the art algorithms for classes of such continuous optimisation problems, where the focus of this PhD project will mostly be theoretical analysis. In addition, to evaluate the usefulness of these new algorithms, we will also implement them and test them on real-world CSP problems.

Qualifications

We welcome talented and highly motivated candidates with good first degree (BSc or MSc) in Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related subject. A programming experience and/or previous research experience would be a distinct advantage though it is not essential.

Please ensure you quote the following reference on your application: "Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Continuous Optimisation with Applications to Crystal Structure Prediction" (Reference: LRC CS1909)

Funding Notes

The award is primarily available to students resident in the UK/EU and will pay full tuition fees and a maintenance grant for 3.5years (£14,777 pa in 2018/19). Non-EU nationals are not eligible for this position and applications from non-EU candidates will not be considered unless you have your own funding.

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In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biologicaltechnologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data relatedto biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *NextGeneration Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughputsequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of thesedata. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributedin all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is achallenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple andnumerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolutionof our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches ofbiological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a verylimited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complexbiological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adoptnew computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approachesto support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help usin our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand,structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on theother hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **KnowledgeDiscovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends.

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The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow seeks applications from outstanding candidates to develop and lead research of international standard in the area of algorithms and complexity.

The successful candidate will work with the algorithms and complexity group in the FATA (Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms) research section, where current topics include matching algorithms, graph algorithms, constraint programming, phase transitions in algorithmic complexity, and parallelisation.

The post holder will pursue a world-class research programme and will teach related topics in Computing Science at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as carrying out allocated administrative tasks. The appointment will be made at Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader level (approximately equivalent to Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in the US) depending on knowledge, skills and experience.

The School is creating a new research theme in Understandable Autonomous Systems. Preference may be given to candidates who have experience of research in algorithmic aspects of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, or else demonstrate the potential to actively contribute to research in this area.

It is the University of Glasgow's mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment.

We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equality.

Vacancy Reference: 023200, Closing Date: 31 March 2019

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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we are happy to announce the possibility to submit sessions and abstracts for EURO2019, the 30th European Conference on Operational Research, in the stream on

"Mixed Integer Programming".

We would like to invite you to contribute a session or a talk to this stream. We are especially interested in presentations about interesting new mathematical developments and novel or large-impact applications thereof.

EURO2019 is the largest and most important conference for Operational Research and Management Science (OR/MS) in Europe organized by EURO – the European Association of Operational Research Society. It will be held June 23-26 in Dublin, Ireland.

Submission deadline is February 8, 2019. For submitting a talk in this stream, please use the code "4ba2ac5e".If you like to organize a session, please let us by email (and we will open a session accordingly).

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Satalia is a London-based optimisation technology company with optimisationteams in Austria, Greece and the UK. We are currently looking for anoptimisation scientist with good programming skills to join one of ouroptimisation teams and solve large-scale industrial problems. Remote andflexible work is possible.

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This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/):

Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org

Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019

Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics.

The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form.

CONFERENCE POLICY

By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference

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- Accepted papers will be included and indexed in IEEE Xplore- 6-pages double column format- Editorial follow-ups: Extended versions of selected papers might be considered for possible fast track publication in a Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications

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The ubiquitous presence of data originating from the integration of wireless networks, pervasive computing, industrial equipment and people, has led to an increased interest in solutions for distributed data management and efficient data distribution at the edge of the networked environments. The essence of this vision is the creation of data-driven networks saturated with pervasive sensing, computing, and wireless communication that ideally support the needs of individuals, societies and industries.

Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination of those. Papers reporting strong data-oriented systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged. The impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of the data-related aspects in the pervasive and industrial internet. Research contributions are solicited in all application areas pertinent to industrial and pervasive data distribution, including but not limited to:

Data distribution in Industrial Internet, where novel data management techniques can be supported by networking protocols, algorithms and processes, and where intelligent entities can exchange and manage distributed data in order to achieve improved performance for both the cyber and the physical components.Particular areas of interest include:

Data distribution in Pervasive Internet, where the ambient intelligence of network devices embedded in the environment can provide a constant and unobtrusive data management and distribution.Particular areas of interest include:

Contributions focused on the horizontal topics of (a) security, privacy, trust (b) reliability, safety (c) experiences from real-world deployments, testbeds, case studies, are also welcome, as long as they target one of the aforementioned application areas.

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The 24th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) will be held in Christchurch New Zealand on 3-5 July 2019,organized by the University of Canterbury. ACISP has established a key forum for international researchers and industry experts to presentand discuss the latest research, trends, breakthroughs, and challenges in the domain of information security, privacy and cybersecurity.

"Christchurch City is alive with colour, atmosphere and world-class attractions,including the International Antarctic Centre, Orana Park and Willowbank Wildlife Park.Christchurch is known internationally as the "Garden City" because of its spectacular gardens.Christchurch is also home to a number of excellent cafes, bars and restaurants.Many popular destinations such as Kaikoura, Akaroa, Mt Hutt and South Canterbury are less than two hours drive from Christchurch."(from NZ tourism guide, http://www.tourism.net.nz/region/christchurch)

All the submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication.Submissions must be fully anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements or obvious references.Submissions must be written in English and have at most 18 pages (LNCS format, including everything).Papers should be sufficiently intelligible and self-contained without appendices so that PC members can make decisions without reading appendices.Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection regardless of their merits.Papers must be submitted using the EasyChair system via the link on the ACISP 2019 conference website.The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference and present their paper.

Important DatesPaper Submission: 15 February 2019Notification of Acceptance: 1 April 2019Camera-ready Copy: 11 April 2019Conference dates: 3-5 July 2019

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